G/TBT/N/ECU/388  
26 April 2019  
(19-2865) Page: 1/3 
Committee  on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960 to 90  
Website: http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y A lfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : 8702.20 
With both compression -ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi -diesel) 
and electric motor as motors for propulsion ; 8702.30 With both spark -ignition internal 
combustion recip rocating piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion ; 
8703.23 With four -wheel drive ; 8703.40 Other vehicles, with both spark -ignition internal 
combustion reciprocating piston engine and electric motor as motors for propulsion, other 
than thos e capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power ; 
8703.50 Other vehicles, with both compression -ignition internal combustion piston engine 
(diesel or semi -diesel) and electric motor as motors for propulsion, other than those 
capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electric power ; 8703.60 Other 
vehicles, with both spark -ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine and 
electric motor as motors for propulsion, capable of being charged by plugging to ext ernal 
source of electric power ; 8703.70 Other vehicles, with both compression -ignition internal 
combustion piston engine (diesel or semi -diesel) and electric motor as motors for 
propulsion, capable of being charged by plugging to external source of electri c power ; 
Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver (HS 8702) ; 
Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons 
(other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing  cars (HS 8703) ; G/TBT/N/ECU/388  
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  Motor vehicles for the transport of goods (HS 8704) ; Special purpose motor vehicles, 
other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, 
breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concre te-mixer lorries, road 
sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units) (HS 8705) ; 
Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05 (HS 8706) ; 
Road tractors for semi -trailers (HS 870120).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Primera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 017 (1R) "Control de 
emisiones contaminantes de fuentes móviles terrestres"  (Draft first revision (1R) of 
Ecuadorian Standardization Institute Technical Regulation PRTE INEN No.017 "Control of 
pollutant emissions from land -based mobile sources") (24 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Technical Regulation establishes the permitted 
limits for the c ontrol of pollutant emissions from land -based mobile sources (motor 
vehicles) circulating in Ecuador and powered by petrol or diesel, as well as chassis fitted 
with engines for motor vehicles, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported 
products, with the aim of protecting human safety and the environment, without impairing 
the efficiency of motor vehicles.  
The notified Technical Regulation applies to the following products:  
• Land-based mobile sources with more than three wheels (motor vehicles, 
prototyp e vehicles) powered by petrol;  
• Land-based mobile sources with more than three wheels (motor vehicles, 
prototype vehicles) or their engines powered by diesel;  
• Chassis fitted with engines powered by petrol or diesel.  
The notified Technical Regulation does no t apply to:  
• Vehicles that run on rails;  
• Road-maintenance machinery (the import license issued by the Ministry of 
Transport and Public Works establishing the vehicle as road -maintenance 
machinery must be attached);  
• Agricultural and forestry machinery;  
• Racing vehicles, classic, historical and collectors' vehicles;  
• Motorcycles, trikes, three -wheelers, quadricycles and cycles;  
• Golf cars and similar ; not for use on roads;  
• Vehicles with only electric motor for propulsion;  
• Hybrid electric vehicles.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety ; Protection of the environment.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Regulatory references:  
1. ISO 2859 -1:1999+Amd 1:2011, Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes 
- Part 1 : Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot -by-
lot inspection;  
2. ISO/IEC 17020:2012, Conformity assessment - Requirements for the operation 
of various types of bodies performing inspection;  
3. ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and 
calibration laboratories;  
4. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
conformity - Part 1 : General requirements;  G/TBT/N/ECU/388  
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  5. ISO/IEC  17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guidelines for product certification schemes;  
6. Norma NTE INEN 2204 (2R):2017 + Corrigendo 1:2017, Gestión ambiental . Aire. 
Vehículos automotores . Límites permitidos de emisiones producidas por fuentes 
móviles terrestres que emplean gasolina ; 
7. Norma NTE INEN 2207 (1R):2002, Gestión Ambiental . Aire. Vehículos 
automotores . Límites permitidos de emisiones producidas por fuentes móviles 
terrestres de diésel ; 
8. Norma NTE  INEN 2656 (1R):2016, Clasificación vehicular;  
9. Norma NTE INEN 2349:2003, Revisión técnica vehicular . Procedimientos ; 
10. Directive 98/69/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 1 3 October 
1998 relating to measures to be taken against air pollution by emissions from 
motor vehicles. (1998L0069 - EN - 28.12.1998 - 000.001);  
11. Directive 1999/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 1 3 
December 1 999 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating 
to measures to be taken against  the emission of gaseous and particulate 
pollutants from compression ignition engines for use in vehicles, and the emission 
of gaseous pollutants from positive ignition engines fuelled with natural gas or 
liquefied petroleum gas for use in vehicles and ame nding Council Directive 
88/77/EEC;  
12. EPA Tier 1 Emission Standards for Passenger Cars and Light -Duty Trucks, FTP 75, 
g/mi; US: Light-duty: Emissions.  
TRACEABILITY:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/17  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/17/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/17/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/17/Add.3  
5. G/TBT/N/ECU/17/A dd.4 
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 days from the date of notification or thereafter  
Proposed date of entry into force : 180 days from the date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca  (MPCEIP)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
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